Color card



Oct. 29, 1929. c. c. HERTEL 1,733,539

COLOR cm) Filed May 11, 1929 Ella Patented Got. 29, 1929 NET TATES PATENT? OFFICE CHARLES C. HER'IEL, OF BIDGEWOOD, NEVJ JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO C. K. EAGLE & 00., INC., A OOBPGEATION OF PENNSYLVANIA COLOR CARD Application filed May 11,

This invention relates to color cares.

An object of the invention is the provision of a color card for attractively displaying samples of textile and other material of different colors, and for identifying such colors by name or number.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a card which will display the samples in such manner that pleasing combinations of colors for use in the same garment will be suggested thereby.

Another object is the provision of a color card which will display the various samples and combinations thereof in a manner in accordance with the newest styles of dress.

Other objects will be apparent from the appended description.

Referring to the drawings which exemplify my invention:

Fig. 1 is a top plan View of the upper portion of a color card, the lower portion being broken away;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view of one of the figures on the color card;

3 is a section taken along lines 33 of 2;

And t is a top plan view of the color card with the cut-out facing sheet removed.

A. number of figures, A, B, C, D, etc., appear on my novel color card, these figures appeari n to be clothed in combinations of the variously colored materials exhibited thereon. The various colors to be displayed are shown by exhibiting several different samples in connection with each figure, and for the purpose of exhibiting the greatest number of. colors per card with regard to the style illustrated. it is desirable that all the colors on the 1 be I rent. The fi ures. 11. C. D,

are preferably substantially alike as to it ucture for the sake of simplicity of manu- "acture, and I will therefore describe the vtincture of only one of such figures.

lily color card comprises a backing sheet 101 to which are adhesively attached samples of goods 102, 103, and 104, so arranged that they will appear in the form of a dress when viewed through the cut-out to be described. A facing sheet 105, having a cut-out portion is over the. sheet with 1329. Serial No. 362,431.

the cut-out portion over the samples so that they will be visible therethrough. This cutout portion preferably has the outline of a dress and the samples which are attached to the backing sheet are so arranged that they will. appear to form the various elements of a l such as skirt, blouse, cape-like blouse,

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the face of the facing sheet and in regis- .n with the cut-out portions and the goods thereunder are marks 108 deneatir such parts of the figure as are not overed by the dress, such as the head, hands,

of the person appearing to be Wearing the simulated dress. The skirt is made up of a small sample of goods 10 1 which may be pasted to the upper face of the backing sheet several points of the sample, for example at the parts marked 109 and 110, the balance of this piece being laid flat and loose. The waist is made up of the samples 102 and 103, the sample 102 giving a cape like appearance thereto. In order to give a blouse like effect to the waist, the .sample 103 is turned back and under at its lower end as shown at 111, and this sample may be pasted at the points 112, 113, 11 1, and 115, the fold 111 being left loose and projecting slightly away from the plane of the backing sheet. The sample 102 may be pasted at the point 116 in such a manner as to present a diagonal edge visible through the cut-out, if such style desired, and this edge may be scalloped as shown or otherwise treated. The samples are, of course, large enough to project beyond the edges of the cut-out portion, and care need not be exercised as a rule in cutting the samples to provide them with nicely cut edges where such edges are not intended to be visible through the cut-out portion. For the sake of neatness the points of pasting the samples are so chosen as not to be visible through the cut-out portion. It is, of course, to be understood that any edges which are to be visible through the cut-out portion, as the diagonal edge of the sample 102, should be neatly cut and arranged in the desired manner.

' add on the upper face of the facing lists 117 of the names and corresponding numliiers of the various shades and colors exhibited on the card together with indiccs such as the numerals 1 to 12 inclusive, etc, and these indiccs may also appear on the facing sheet adjacent each sample, for the purpose of identification.

After all the samples have been properly attached to the backing sheet and the facing sheet placed thereover with the cut out portions thereof in proper registration with the samples of goods, the facing and hacking sheets are adhesively united in such manner that they will not separate or partially separate by swinging open like the pages of a book, and this is preferably accomplished by 'iasting them together along their edges.

I prefer to add a border line 118 to the face of the facing sheet, as shown on Fig. l.

I have described a simple manner of pasting the sample to the backing sheet and I have described and illustrated a simple exemplieation of my invention, but it is to be understood that these may be varied, as may the style of dress shown, without departing from the spirit of my invention. It is, of course, to be understood that a transparent portion may be used in place of the cut-out portion.

Having described my invention, what I claim 1. A color card comprising a facing sheet and a backing sheet attached together to prevent swinging open thereof, said facing sheet having a series of cut-out portions, markings on said facing sheet adjacent said cut-out, several differently colored samples of dress goods under eacn of said cut-out portions and adhesively attached to said backing sheet, certain portions of some of said samples overlying certain other portions thereof under the same cut-out portion, the samples under the same cut-cu t portion forming a pleasing color con'ibination, the outlines of a cut-out portion,

the marki gs adjacent thereto and the samples tl'ioreunder being interrelatedly shaped and delimited to simulate a figure fashionabl dressed in a pleasing color combination, and color index markings on the face of the facing sheet corresponding to the different colors displayed.

2. A color car coi'i'iprising a facing sheet and a backing sheet, said facing sheet having a cut-out portion therein, differently colored samples of goods attached to said backing sheet between said backing sheetand said fac ing sheet and under said cut-out portion, at least one of said samples being loosely fold ed back under itself to give a perspective ell'ect, said loose fold overlying another sample.

3. A color card comprising a facing sheet and a backing sheet attached together to prevent swinging open thereof, said facing sheet having a cut-out portion, several differently colored samples of textile goods attached to said backing sheet between said backing sheet and said facing sheet and under said cut-out portion, said cut-out portion and said samples thereunder being so shaped that said samples thereunder will simulate the various parts of a complete garment, the samples under any cut-out portion being of a pleasing combination of colors, and markings on the face of said facing sheet which simulate parts of a person not covered by said simulated gar ment.

4. A color card comprising a backing,

samples of goods attached thereto in overlapping relation to each other, a facing sheet attached to said hacking, said facing sheet having a cut-out portion over said samples, said overlapping samples being visible through said cut-out portion, the edges of said cut-out portion and an overlap delimiting the samples to simulate a dress, and markings simulating parts of a person appearing to wear said simulated dress on said facing sheet at and adjacent to said cut-out portion.

5. A color card comprising a backing, samples of goods attached thereto in overlapping relation to each other, a facing sheet attached to said backing, said facing sheet having a cut-out portion over said samples, said overlapping samples being visible through said cut-out portion, the edges of said cut-out portion and an overlap delimit ing the samples to simulate a dress, markings simulating parts of a person appearing to wear said simulated dress on said facing sheet at and adjacent to said cut-out portion, and color index markings on the face of said facing sheet corresponding to the different colors displayed in the simulated garment.

3. A. color card comprising a backing, samples of goods attached thereto in over lapping relation to each other, a facing sheet attached to said backing, said facing sheet having a cut-out portion over said samples, said overlapping samples being visible through said cut-out portion, the edges of said cut-out portion and an overlap delimiting the samples to simulate a dress, markings simulating parts of a person appearing to wear said simulated dress on said facing sheet at and adjacent to said cut-out portion, at least one of said overlapping samples being curved back under itself at an overlap.

CHARLES C. HERTEL. 

